1978 general · November 7, 1978
1978 Idaho House of Representatives election results, district by district
Every Idaho House of Representatives district in the 1978 general election: winners, margins, unopposed seats and seats that changed party.
Seats after the election
Republicans controlled the chamber · 70 seats
After the electionD 20 · R 50
Races35
Changed party0
Unopposed0%0 races
Incumbents defeated3
Every district
D 20 · R 50
| Race | Winner | Won by | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| LD-1 | James Stoicheff · Marion Davidson (D) | 6.9 | |
| LD-2 | Gary Ingram · L. C. Spurgeon (REP) | 0.7 | |
| LD-3 | Emery Hedlund · B. E. Lewis (DEM) | 12.1 | |
| LD-4 | Louis J. Horvath · William F. Lytle (DEM) | 0.7 | |
| LD-5 | Tom Boyd · Joseph W. Walker (R) | 5.7 | Incumbent lost |
| LD-6 | Joe N. Wagner · Ronald V. Harlow (D) | 4.9 | |
| LD-7 | Carl Braun · Marguerite McLaughlin (D) | 5.3 | |
| LD-8 | Harold W. Reid · K. Jim Ries (D) | 8.4 | |
| LD-9 | Morgan Munger · Herbert Fitz (R) | 5.9 | |
| LD-10 | Walter E. Little · George Danielson (R) | 5.4 | |
| LD-11 | Carroll Dean · Dorothy Reynolds (REP) | 2.6 | |
| LD-12 | Kenneth Stephenson · Steve Scanlin (REP) | 0.7 | |
| LD-13 | Percival A. Wesche · Virginia Smith (R) | 2.1 | |
| LD-14 | J. Michael Gwartney · Dan D. Emery (R) | 7.6 | |
| LD-15 | Peggy Bunting · Roger L. Guernsey (REP) | 0.1 | |
| LD-16 | Christopher Hooper · James Dean Golder (R) | 10.4 | |
| LD-17 | Kathleen W. Gurnsey · Larry W. Harris (R) | 1.1 | |
| LD-18 | Wendy Ungricht · Jack C. Kennevick (R) | 6.2 | |
| LD-19 | John F. Reardon · Lyman Gene Winchester (R) | 10.2 | |
| LD-20 | Wayne E. Tibbits · Ray Infanger (R) | 7.6 | |
| LD-21 | Mack W. Neibaur · Steve Antone (R) | 23.6 | |
| LD-22 | Virgil Kraus · Dan Kelly (R) | 9.2 | |
| LD-23 | John H. Brooks · Gordon Hollifield (R) | 8.4 | |
| LD-24 | Lawrence Knigge · Noy Brackett (R) | 21.6 | |
| LD-25 | Ralph Olmstead · T. W. Stivers (R) | 10.4 | |
| LD-26 | J. Vard Chatburn · Ernest A. Hale (R) | 12.2 | |
| LD-27 | Darwin Young · Raymond Parks (R) | 13.4 | |
| LD-28 | F. Melvin Hammond · Doyle Miner (DEM) | 48.9 | |
| LD-29 | Kurt L. Johnson · C. Wendell Miller (REP) | 3.4 | |
| LD-30 | Elaine Kearnes · Gary L. Paxman (R) | 15.9 | |
| LD-31 | John O. Sessions · Linden Bateman (R) | 12.7 | |
| LD-32 | Robert C. Geddes · Willard W. Stucki (R) | 14.8 | |
| LD-33 | Bert W. Marley · Myron Jones (DEM) | 1.2 | Incumbent lost |
| LD-34 | Gary Gould · Patricia McDermott (D) | 1.4 | |
| LD-35 | W. Rusty Barlow · Dwight W. Horsch (REP) | 0.6 | Incumbent lost |
Idaho House of Representatives
Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner